Note 4 — Chapter XLVI · THE GILYAKS.
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They are beginning now to use tea, salt, sugar, and bread; but all of these seem to have been unknown to them before the advent of the Russians. I heard it mentioned, as a good trait in their character, that if a Gilyak receives a piece of bread, after eating a portion he takes home the remainder as a treat for his family. During my stay at Mikhailofsky the natives came to barter wild fruit for bread. They are said to have no stated hours for meals, and knives and forks are of course unknown to them. Noticing one day some Manchu and Goldi at a meal, I observed they had boiled millet in basins, which they raised to the lips, and then whipped the millet into their mouths with chop-sticks.